Elon Musk Biography and Quotes
Birthday: June 28th, 1971
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Nationality: South African
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Years Old
Famously Known For
Elon Reeve Musk is the chief executive officer and lead designer of Space X.
Elon is the co-founder of many companies like Tesla, Nauralink, PayPal, The boring Company and OpenAI.
Early Life
Elon was born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa. His parent divorced in 1980 and Elon lived with his father in the suburbs of Pretoria.
Since he was young Elon was an avid reader, and he developed an interest in computing and taught himself to code at the age of 10 and made a video game at the age of 12 to a magazine called PC.
During his younger year experienced bullying by a group of boys in school, he was thrown off a flight of stairs. He lost consciousness during the ordeal, and he had to nose job to repair the damage.
He attended Waterkloof House preparatory and Bryanston High school before going to Pretoria Boys high school. At the age of 17, he Queens University, and in 1992 he went to University of Pennsylvania to business and physics.
Two days after joining Stanford for his PhD in physics he dropped out to launch his first company Zip2.
Personal Life
He married Justine Wilson in 2000 and divorced 2008 and married Talulah Riley in 2010 and divorced in 2012.
Career
Musk started his web software company Zip2 with his brother with money from an angel investor in 1995. Musk clients were The New York Times and Chicago Tribune; his company marketed an internet city guide.
In March 1999, PayPal Company was co-founded by musk. In the of 2001, he joined the space exploration expedition and space X company was born.
His electric car company Tesla is a significant milestone for the visionary who stops at nothing to make his dreams come through. The company has a Giga factory in Nevada to manufacture powerful batteries for these cars.
Musk has been among the greatest inventors and entrepreneurs of our time.
